CHAPTER XXIII

1749 1749, April 5, Boston. Meeting of Auditing Committee of the Masters Lodge. A.B. 1749, April 7, Boston.
Meeting of the Masters Lodge. Brother Thomas Pearson raised.
O.R.; P.L.; A.B.
1749, April 12, Boston. Meeting of the First Lodge. Brother Hugh McKay admitted.
OPRes Bs 2AtB: 1749, April 26, Boston. Meeting of the First Lodge. O.R.; A.B. 1749, May 5, Boston. Meeting of the Masters Lodge. O.R.; A.B. 1749, May 10, Boston.
Meeting of the First Lodge. Capt. James H. Ewing (Euing) made. Brother Robert Gardner admitted.
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1749, May 24, Boston.
Meeting of the First Lodge. O.R.; A.B.
1749, June 2, Boston.
“Being Masters Lodge night; Adjourned on Account of the House being taken up by the General Court.”
OLR: 1749, June 14, Boston. Meeting of the First Lodge. Election. O.R.; A.B. 1749, June 24, Boston.
Celebration of the Festival. There is no record of this celebration, but the First Lodge appointed Stewards therefor at its meeting on June 14, and there is in the archives of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts an original letter in the handwriting of Charles Pelham, Secretary, signed by him and by the Master and Wardens of the First Lodge recommending Brother Robert Jenkins to the Master, Wardens and Brethren of any Lodge in Lon- don, and which is dated ‘‘From the Lodge in Boston N. Engld. held June 24th A.D. 1749.”
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1749, June 28, Boston. Meeting of the First Lodge. O.R.; A.B.
Philadelphia. Meeting of Tun Tavern Lodge. With this meeting the known records of this Lodge begin. It is evident,
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however, that it was not its first meeting. The record